At the October Minnesota Innovative User’s Group conference at St. Olaf, Hsianghui Liu-Spencer and Tom Lamb presented their experiment with batch updating personal name authority files with death date additions…

Carol E. Eyler, Head of Technical Services, gave a presentation titled, "Yes, We Can!: Adding Campus Collections to Millennium & Our OPACs," at the Minnesota Innovative Users Group (MnIUG) meeting at St. Olaf College on October 23. She discussed the ways in which library staff have worked with Carleton's Music Department, LTC, GSC, and Career Center to add their collections of library-like materials to the Bridge library catalog.

Danya Leebaw and Heather Tompkins presented as part of a panel at the Minnesota Library Association 2012 Annual Conference. Their presentation, entitled "What a Queer Idea: LGBT Resources for Your Library," addressed working with undergraduates researching LGBT topics. They suggested mainstream free or inexpensive resources available to study LGBT questions, and discussed some of the issues inherent in using mainstream resources to research marginalized groups.

Charles F. Priore, Jr has been named editor of the two volume series entitled: The art of the gun : selections from the Robert M. Lee collection / Robert M. Lee and R.L. Wilson ('61),Yellowstone Press 2012. This two volume set is the most elaborate book ever published on antique Colt firearms.

Danya Leebaw, Matt Ryan, Christina Sinkler-Miller, Nat Wilson, and Ann Zawistoski joined colleagues from St. Olaf, Kathy Blough, Brian Conlan, Sarah Johnston, and Kasia Gonnerman, to host the workshop "Improving Library Resource Discovery: Exploring the Possibilities of VuFind and Web Scale Discovery in a Consortial Environment" at the Library Technology Conference in St. Paul at Macalester College on March 15, 2012. They led a discussion on the selection and implementation of the library's new open source catalog overlay, investigation of web scale discovery, and resources and ideas for libraries considering these technologies for their campuses.

Carol E. Eyler, wrote a post-publication review of Serials Binding: a simple and complete guidebook to processes by Irma Nicola. (New York: Haworth Press, 2010), in response to a request from Stacy Noto, Editorial Assistant, Routledge Research. Oct 11, 2010. This review was for internal publisher review of this publication.

Carol E. Eyler, Head of Technical Services, and Ann Zawistoski, Interim Head of Reference & Instruction, presented "Sprucing Up Bridge with New Portals & a VuFind Catalog Overlay," a brief talk and demonstration for Northfield library staff on December 21, 2011.

Charles F. Priore, Jr. has published two chapters entitled: "Locating and Using the Biological Literature" and "Documenting the Paper" in the 5th edition of Victoria E. McMillan's, Writing Papers in the BiologicalSciences, Bedford/St. Martins Press 2011.